Claire Keegan’s works of fiction are translated into thirty five languages. Antarctica won the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature. Walk the Blue Fields won the Edge Hill Prize for the finest collection of stories published in the British Isles. Foster, after winning the Davy Byrnes Award — then the world’s richest prize
Claire Keegan’s works of fiction are translated into thirty five languages. Antarctica won the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature. Walk the Blue Fields won the Edge Hill Prize for the finest collection of stories published in the British Isles. Foster, after winning the Davy Byrnes Award — then the world’s richest prize for a story — was chosen by The Times as one of the top 50 works of fiction to be published in the 21st Century. Small Things Like These was shortlisted for the Booker Prize, the Dalkey Prize and the Rathbones Folio Prize. It won the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction, The Ambassadors’ Prize for best Irish novel published in France and The Kerry Prize for Irish Novel the year. She was awarded Woman of the Year for Literature in Ireland, 2022, and a Markievicz Award 2023.
